#Token Streaming

[the-impulse-to-love]

happy tmbte anniversary!!!

rune translation:

vessel: happy anniversary tmbte :::3

the godforsaken lunar anomaly: I will devour every lifeform on this planet and everything you hold dear.

(anyways. i think its having a good time. happy 2nd birthday/anniversary >_<)

shoutout to tmbte, the Album That You Are. havent gone a single week without listening to a few songs from there at least once. tmbte n euclid will always have my entire heart :::’)

[sleepiestoken]

creature posting

[wulfhalls]

they got matching robes now #family

[asignfromgod]

im curious so reblog this & put in the tags what your most listened to sleep token song is !! (and what your favorite song by sleep token is if it’s different)

[v3sse1]

DYWTYLM, my precious babygirl, one day you will get the recognition you deserve

[minyard-05]

okay. maybe i will type up my caramel 2cents

(keep in mind it's 5 in the morning i've listened to it about six times already and i will be continuing all day)

so. To me. to me it's almost definitely the clearest message that's been in any of their songs. like if you read the lyrics and possess 2 pieces of knowledge (1: all members of the band deliberately remain anonymous by choice and 2: a lot of their fans are often bad at respecting this choice) i think it's very clear exactly what vessel is saying here.

but the first thing i want to bring up is the Sugar parallel. first of all, it's fucking everywhere: the title, the way it was teased, the style of the intro, ALL of this is very heavily linked back to Sugar.

but like. if you go back and listen to Sugar (which i did), and you read the lyrics, it ALSO has a very explicit message, although admittedly there is slightly more metaphor in this one. but just as an example:

i wonder what that could mean

it's no secret that both Sundowning and This Place Will Become Your Tomb are about being in/escaping an abusive relationship, one that's specifically emotionally manipulative and isolating, and this entire scenario is reflected in what we know about Vessel and Sleep. that's a separate essay in itself, but i'm going into the rest of this operating on the assumption that we all know and are aware of those topics being prevalent most on ST's first two albums.

and now. Caramel.

as a very basic explanation of what went on with the actual release of the single: essentially, someone involved with the band i think posted about being excited for it to be released and fans came back and lost their shit for it not being 'enough information' or not being 'exciting enough'. my first response to that is get a grip. my second response to that is stop acting like they owe you anything because it's literally just a band. like this is their day job. leave them alone.

ANYWAY.

unfortunately, the aforementioned bullshit about Caramel's release ended up being ironic as hell because the single dropped today, and what is it about?

exactly that.

i mean. come on. come on. like i can't explain this any better than vessel already did, the message isn't even hiding behind a metaphor anymore. what else could "I guess that's what I get for trying to hide in the limelight" possibly mean? sleep token kind of shot into mainstream when Take Me Back To Eden came out, they suddenly went from smaller venues on tour for TPWBYT, to selling out Wembley stadium on Teeth of God, and that's a stressful place to be as an artist. you go from making music for yourself and writing what you want to write, fuck what anyone else says– to immediately being Watched and Observed and Studied like a fucking experiment. all of a sudden people want interviews and people want to know what you're writing and people want the next song and it should be like this and it should be exactly like the last one and fans want fans want fans want.

this is why i would argue that fan culture is one of the most damaging things to musicians. because while it can be incredible to have so many people at your back who express a love for your art, it's suffocating to try and create when you can't get the reactions out of your head. what if they hate it? what if what you make isn't good enough? what if the last song they loved was a lucky break but the next one won't hit right and they'll hate it and they'll hate you and then you lose all of it because you couldn't do it right.

so do you get why the band might want to stay anonymous? that's not even getting into the media and the paparazzi themselves, which are their own issue.

with all this said, that's what caramel is about: the message is stop. it doesn't matter if we don't know their names or their faces, the members of sleep token are people and they deserve respect like anybody else. you don't get to demand anything from them, whether that's music or information or whatever else. they don't owe you anything. you choose to listen to the music, to buy the merch, go to the concerts, that's your decision. you're not entitled to anything from any one of them, because i'll repeat: this is their job. they're working when they're onstage, in the studio, even handling releases like this. and as a songwriter myself, it's fucking work. it takes hours and hours of looping 7 seconds of a song to get the mix exactly right, millions and millions of takes and rehearsals and writing sessions and it's fucking exhausting.

so i guess my final thing is just. listen to the music. engage with the other fans if you want to. enjoy what the band is freely sharing with you (listen to the message they're sending) and just don't be a prick. <3

[did-sm1-say-catfish]

jimmy when he's our token white guy <3

[daredevils-advocate]

I think Sleep Token should come with a warning about how much these sad British men will completely consume your life.

[vulcanette]

im so hype listening to everyone singing every single word and freaking out, our people for real for real!!!

[potatomoonjuice]

2 millions streams in 2 days... WORSHIP

[the-impulse-to-love]

IM GONNA BE SICK

god. what a good show. absolutely deserved for them to headline. so fucking proud of them oh my god

(taken from @_belky._'s stream on tiktok)

[elkkiel]

as it fucking should be

[rayons1only1started]

Hey has anyone also noticed this in the stream from the Griffith observatory?

Is this normal? Do observatories just stream music? Idk someone help.

[excelsior9173]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING

[whoopseydaisy]

The Overflowing Heart

I will tell you how I made this witch’s token, but you will have to find a way of your own. It is as Grandmother Wren told us,

“Remember always that some portion of magic is yours to wield, and that the world contains many, many truths.”

the recipe:

3/4 oz Kazuki gin

1 1/2 oz. Sake + tea mixture

1 oz. fresh squeezed grapefruit

3/4 oz. Strega

shake over ice, and serve in your finest or favourite tea cup

garnish with dried rose petals

notes:

Sherringham Kazuki gin— a collaboration of one of my favourite distilleries and my favourite local tea shop, Westholme Tea Farm. Made from Japanese cherry blossoms, and locally grown tea leaves with notes of yuzu, grapefruit, and juniper. I first visited Sherringham in a trio of my own, on a day long adventure, visiting a beach someway up the island. Westholme is run by an old coworker of my Aunt’s, and his partner who makes gorgeous pottery. I could not put words to my excitement when I first heard whispers of their collaboration.

Sake + Tea Mixture— I can never fully recreate this just the same. There is magic in that, I think. I have little left. I made it by taking a sprinkling of the following teas from Westholme, and cold steeping them in a mason jar with a large ice cube, topped with sake and a splash of moon bathed witch water.

featuring:

Blossom: (jasmine green, floral), for the cottage’s calendar

Bi Luo Chun: (green, delicate and earthy), for i thought it was grown here, over seven long years (I rolled a nat 1 on my perception check)

Pur-eh: (fermented, earthy), for its mushroominess and it’s connection therin

Dog: (black assam, vanilla and cardamon, from the Chinese Zodic series), the cardamom pod and a few leaves, for our beloved Fox

Witch Water: the witch water used in this potion was bathed in the Friday, October 13th New Moon (a day so witchy I thought for sure the class would be released that day!) in an empty kazuki gin vessel

~

Grapefruit— because it was pink and in season and a citrus I love dearly

Strega— the witch liqueur! According to legend, Giuseppe Alberti was given the recipe for this elixir after saving a witch falling out of the sacred walnut tree, under which witches would convene to dance and perform their rituals.

for the cocktail chapter of the @worldsbeyondpod unofficial cookbook

[aquareegia]

You know how I said we might get a Sleep Token livestream from Rock am Ring/Rock im Park? So ST are set to perform on the Mandora stage, which does get livestreamed. But their sets are pretty late (23:30-01:00 on June 7th and 01:00-02:30 on June 8th). I know some stream til after midnight, but idk if they'd stream until 2 in the night?

There's no definitive confirmation if their set gets livestreamed yet, but for those who are worried that they might be recorded against their will... I think that's not gonna happen since it's actually well known that the festival gets streamed, I'm pretty sure no artist will be left unaware of that. Some artists explicitly don't perform at RaR/RiP because they don't want to get livestreamed. Sleep Token might have an agreement with the festival to not stream their set, or they might have agreed to it. Whatever the case, I'm fine with it either way. But there is a possibility still. 👀